Journal
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 176-182Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihu075
Keywords
Community health workers; Health information technology; Lay health workers; Malaria; Mobile phones; Senegal
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- Global Health Innovation Fund from Mount Sinai Global Health Center at the Icahn School of Medicine [0204-2823]
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Although community case management of malaria increases access to life-saving care in isolated settings, it contends with many logistical challenges. Mobile phone health information technology may present an opportunity to address a number of these barriers. Using the wireless adaptation of the technology acceptance model, this study assessed availability, ease of use, usefulness, and job relevance of mobile phones by health workers in Saraya, Senegal. This study conducted seven key informant interviews with government health workers, and three focus groups and 76 surveys with lay health workers. Principal findings included that mobile phones are already widely available and used, and that participants valued using phones to address training, stock management, programme reporting, and transportation challenges. By documenting widespread use of mobile phones and health worker perceptions of their most useful applications, this paper provides a framework for their integration into the community case management of malaria programme in Saraya, Senegal.
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